Hopefully there are no mummies, and Brendan Fraser won't be called on to
fight them badly.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33791672/ns/technology_and_science-science/
The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of
the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located,
solving one of archaeology's biggest outstanding mysteries, according to
Italian archaeologists.

Bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones
found in the vast desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert have raised hopes
of finally finding the lost army — 50,000 strong — of Persian King Cambyses
II, buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C.

"We have found the first archaeological evidence of a story reported by the
Greek historian Herodotus," Dario Del Bufalo, a member of the
expedition from the University of Lecce, told Discovery News.

According to Herodotus (484-425 B.C.), Cambyses, the son of Cyrus the Great,
sent 50,000 soldiers from Thebes to attack the Oasis of Siwa and destroy the
oracle at the Temple of Amun. Alexander the Great had famously sought
legitimization of his rule from the oracle of Amun in 332 B.C., but
according to legend, the oracle would have predicted the death of Cambyses.

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